Sleeping Beauty

A company, especially a start-up, that might make a profitable takeover, but has not been approached by a potential acquirer. Qualifications for a sleeping beauty include high potential with bad management or perhaps an undervalued share price.

sleeping beauty

A firm with valuable assets not effectively used by its management. Such a firm has high profit potential and value and is therefore a prime candidate for takeover.

Watching Shakespeare's classic "Romeo and Juliet" for the first time, Kieu belted out laughs during the 16th century play's comical Mercutio scenes, and gasped when she watched the young lovers fall into eternal sleep.

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